Saturday, July 30, 2011

As part of its Electronic Publications Initiative the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) publication of the seven titles below. These books were digitized as part of Stony Brook University's AMAR project by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image at the University of Pennsylvania:

The Newsletter of the School, ákoue, is published by the ASCSA Development Office and sent free of charge to staff, alumni and other friends of the School approximately twice a year. No. 47 (2003)and the following issues are available.

The primary purpose of the Agora Picture Book series is to enliven the experience of a visitor to the Athenian Agora, excavated by the American School since 1931. While drawing on the object and monuments that can be viewed on a visit to the site, these well-illustrated guides attempt to add some human color to the dry material remains. A number of the concise guides have become popular supplementary texts for undergraduate and graduate classes in classical civilization. Since 1998 the Picture Books have been published in color.

The digital library [at http://ascsa.net] currently provides access to the archaeological data from the Athenian Agora and Corinth together with a selection of photographs from the Alison Frantz Collection. You can use the index of categories to the left to browse this data, or search using the toolbar above. Material which has been published is made completely available to the public. Material which is unpublished is only available to researchers who have already obtained the necessary permission to study the material in person.

The Athenian Agora: A Short Guide in Color
By John McK.Camp II
This colorful overview is intended primarily for visitors to the site, but also provides a useful introduction to the visible remains. After a brief history of the Agora, the principal monuments are described, and then the reader is taken on a counterclockwise tour around the site. The author is the current Director of Excavations at the Athenian Agora, and this guide therefore presents the most up-to-date information available. 48pp (Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture Book 16, revised 2003) ISBN: 0-87661-643-0

This new edition of the Agora guide takes account of the important recent excavations which have taken place since 1976, the year of publication of the third edition. In addition, this version has been directed specifically toward those actually visiting the site: it is somewhat more compact than its predecessor and the illustrations have been chosen to help the visitor recreate the site in his mind's eye. (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1990) ISBN: 960-7067-00-2

These brief guides present concise descriptions of interesting discoveries at the site of Corinth, excavated by the American School since 1896. The existing numbers in the series focus on the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, the center of a healing cult situated on the lower slopes of the Acrocorinth mountain, and on the Asklepieion.

The Gennadius Library (known as “the Gennadeion") contains a large collection of volumes on various aspects of post-classical Greek culture and history. The Library’s archives are the repository of many more important photographs, manuscripts, documents, and special collections. The Gennadeion Monographs series exists to publish studies related to the collections of the library.

Situated on the most direct route from the Peloponnese to central Greece and Attica, as well as from Corinth to the Saronic Gulf, the panhellenic sanctuary at Isthmia preserves evidence of cult practices from at least the 7th century B.C. A Doric Temple of Poseidon was built ca. 465 B.C. and then rebuilt after a fire around 75 years later. The site was the center of a cult to the local boy-hero Palaimon in the Roman period and continued to function as a sanctuary into at least the 3rd century A.D. Its abandoned buildings were used as a quarry to build a set of Late Roman fortifications to defend the Isthmus. This series publishes excavations by both the University of Chicago and Ohio State University.

Excavations on the Cycladic island of Keos revealed a number of prehistoric sites, including the site of Ayia Irini on a peninsula at the northwest end. This site was occupied from Neolithic to Roman times, flourishing particularly in the Bronze Age when it was the location of a sanctuary. A large number of near lifesize figures were discovered there during excavations in the 1960s by the University of Cincinnati. This series is no longer published by ASCSA. Other volumes have been published by Philipp von Zabern Verlag.

Lerna, on the shore of the Gulf of Argos, is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Greece, having been occupied with few interruptions over a period of some 5,000 years, from the 6th to the 1st millennium B.C. A simple Neolithic village became a more complex settlement in the Early Helladic period when the massive House of the Tiles was built. Destroyed by fire at the end of the period, it was covered by a tumulus in the Middle Helladic period. This series presents the results of excavations by John L. Caskey from 1952 to 1958.

These volumes present the definitive account of one of the masterpieces of Greek architecture, the grand entrance to the Athenian Akropolis designed in the 5th century B.C. by the architect Mnesikles. Written by a father and son team over a period of 80 years, the two books present a complete overview of the development of one of the monuments of western civilization. No further volumes are planned.

High in the mountains of Arcadia, the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae was built and rebuilt a number of times during the Archaic and Classical periods. According to the Roman traveler Pausanias, the architect was Iktinos, who was also responsible for building the Parthenon in Athens. Although the accuracy of this statement is uncertain, the temple remains one of the most spectacular and well preserved in Greece. This four-volume series, including large-scale plans, is based on a detailed study by University of Minnesota researchers. The series is complete.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Egeria is the name of the Christian pilgrim who traveled across the Eastern Mediterranean in the 4th century AD in order to visit and worship at the Holy Land and other important pilgrimage destinations in the region. The journey of the pilgrim Egeria and the concept of pilgrimage in general were the inspiration for the project

Egeria

Mediterranean Medieval Places of Pilgrimage

Network for the documentation, preservation and enhancement of monuments in the euro-mediterranean area

Project “Egeria” is a Community Initiative Programme Interreg IIIB – Archimed 2000-2006. It is a project of inter-state cooperation, which involves twelve public and private, religious and secular institutions from eight states: Greece, Italy and Cyprus, as well as a large number of non-European states, such as Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. It is financed by ERDF funds and co-financed by national funds.

The project focuses on pilgrimage sites, the immovable and movable pilgrimage monuments that are interspersed in the Mediterranean landscape but also in time, from antiquity to the present. The main objective of the project is the establishment of a network of cooperation for the documentation, preservation, enhancement and promotion of pilgrimage monuments. This objective is accomplished through the various activities and products of the project. One of these products is the current website, which presents selected pilgrimage monuments and proposes cultural itineraries based on these monuments.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The History Studies(HS) is an international, peer-reviewed online history journal. All submitted articles go through a rigorous double-blind review.

The HS is published three times a year.

The HS has a worldwide circulation. A limited number of each issue is printed and delivered to selected libraries.

The HS publishes academic articles, interviews, translations and book reviews.

The HS accepts papers in every geographical and historical period of history from the ancient times to present. The editorial board members and referees of the HShavea wide range of expertise.

The primary publication language of the HS is Turkish of Turkey. The HS also accepts submissions in other Turkish dialects, in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

The official editor and owner of the History Studies is Osman KOSE but the journal is regarded as a joint periodical of all historians. All the contributors, writers, editors and referees of the journal are historians.

The HS is a common meeting place of historians regardless of their area or period of concentration.

The HS has a guest editor system. The HS aims to release a special issue at least once a year with a selected theme and a guest editor. For guest editorship and special issue ideas please contact us at history.studies@yahoo.com

The HS is an independent academic journal. It has no affiliation with an institution or an organization.

In this issue, there will be 15 articles,3 book reviews and an assessment essay. The articles contain the subjects that cover Ancient History, The Seljuk State, The ottoman State and history of early period Republic of Turkey. We hope you will enjoy reading and make best use of the issue. This issue has been published in the guest-editorship of Prof. Dr. Dursun Ali Akbulut

We are happy to present you the Middle East special issue of History Studies. This special issue was preparered with the co-guest editorship of Professor Dr. William W. Haddad from California State University-Fullerton and Professor Dr. Mustafa Ozturk from Firat University. Twenty two articles, two book reviews and a commentary in this issue cover different aspects of the Middle East history from past to present. We hope you will enjoy reading them.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Ancient Lives - The citizens of this county town, five days journey by road (ten by
water) south of Memphis, called it Oxyrhynchus, or Oxyrhynchon polis: City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish

Ancient Lives is a collaboration between a diverse collection of Oxford Papyrologists and Researchers, TheImaging Papyri Project, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, and the Egypt Exploration Society and the following institutions.

The papyri belong to the Egypt Exploration Society and will eventually be published and numbered in Society's Greco-Roman Memoirs series in the volumes entitled The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. We would be grateful if the EES could be mentioned whenever the papyri or project are described

Monday, July 25, 2011

The
Babylonian Chronographic document concerning Bagayasha ("Bagayasha
Chronicle"; BCHP 18) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient
Babylonia.
It describes a punitive action by a Parthian
prince against the city of Babylon,
and its consequences. For a very brief
introduction to the literary genre of chronicles,
go here.The cuneiform tablets are

A: BM
35229+35518+35621 (Sp. II 792 + Sp. III 24+27)

B: BM
35189+46018+46216 (Sp. III, 295+81-7-6,464+81-7-6,678)

They can be found in the British
Museum. On this website, a first reading is proposed by Bert
van der Spek of the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and
Irving Finkel of the British Museum.*
Please notice that this is a preliminary
edition. This web publication is intended to invite suggestions for
better
readings, comments and interpretations (go here
to contact Van der Spek).

The focus of this ambitious series is on the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the early Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras. Studies that are heavily philological or archaeological are both suited to this series, and can take full advantage of the hypertext capabilities of “born digital” publication. Multiple author and edited volumes as well as monographs are accepted. Proposals and manuscripts may be submitted in either English or Spanish. Manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two scholars in the area before acceptance. Published volumes will be held to the high scholarly standards of the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente. The partnership between the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente was initiated under the auspices of SBL’s International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and represents the type of international scholarly exchange that is the goal of ICI.

This series is the ideal place to publish for authors and editors who wish their work to be widely read. Works published in the series are (and will remain permanently) open access. This ensures the widest possible readership for these works.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

ARK (The Archaeological Recording Kit) is a
web-based ‘toolkit’ for the collection, storage and dissemination of
archaeological data. It includes data-editing, data-creation,
data-viewing and data-sharing tools, all of which are delivered using a
web-based front-end.

It is designed to be adaptable to any digital or paper-based
recording system, so does not dictate what or how the archaeologist
records at a given site. Rather it provides a framework, an interface
and a set of pre-fabricated digital tools for archaeological recording
and data dissemination according to the unique needs of any given
project.

Based on industry standard data technologies (Apache/MySQL/PHP), ARK is completely opensource and standards-compliant.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Multidisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Collections at JSTOR
The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. More detailed information about JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR's Available Collections page

Journal Description

The Studies series of the British School at Athens publishes a range of material beyond the excavation reports which are the focus of the Supplementary Volumes. They consist mainly of BSA-led conference reports or Festschriften for BSA members, both of which embrace a wide range of content, from the mesolithic to mediaeval periods. In addition two volumes present authoritative accounts of pottery production at Knossos on Crete in the Bronze Age and in the Greek and Roman periods.

Journal Description

The Supplementary Volumes, originally Papers, of the British School at Athens primarily consist of full publication of excavations carried out by members of the School or under its auspices, over the last one hundred and ten years. Earlier volumes are devoted to a range of other topics, such as the techniques of Greek sculpture and the papers of George Finlay, an influential British figure in the early history of the modern Greek state. The main body of the series covers excvations carried out at Lefkandi on the island of Euboia, in the Cyclades and on Crete, especially Knossos, during the whole of the sites lengthy history. Places beyond modern Greece are also to be found, Smyrna in Turkey and Butrint in Albania. All volumes are richly illustrated.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a
web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions
and digital archives of humanities texts. Out of the box, TILE 1.0
supports the following tools and functionality:

Image markup tool

Annotate regions of an image by drawing rectangles, polygons, and
ellipses, apply labels to selections, and manually create links between
sections of an image and transcript lines.

Importing and exporting tools

Import TEI P5 or JSON data directly into TILE or create a script to
import from various XML formats. Export your data as TEI or JSON to save
your progress or use scripts to output into any XML, HTML, or
text-based format. Additional import/export tools can be developed as
plugins.

Semi-automated line recognizer

Implemented in javascript, our semi-automated line recognizer
annotates images by detecting individual lines on an image, and selects
regions of an image based upon those lines.

Plugin architecture

Extend the core functionality of TILE by creating a plugin that can
manipulate TILE’s interface, filter and process data, and connect to
other tools.

In July 2006, the Dorot Foundation Dead Sea Scrolls Information and Study Center, in memory of Joy Gottesman Ungerleider opened to the public. It is situated in the new Shrine of the Book complex at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

The aim of the Center is to introduce visitors to topics related to the Dead Sea Scrolls, biblical manuscripts, the Second Temple Period, archaeological excavations at Qumran, and the architecture and symbolism of the Shrine of the Book, by broadening their knowledge and providing them with the tools necessary for further research. In addition, the Center intends to develop informal educational programs, as well as databases, computer programs, and artistic means related to the topics mentioned above.

We are currently digitizing the manuscripts and the archaeological collection on display at the Shrine of the Book. At this stage we are pleased to present the first two scrolls online: the entire Temple Scroll, and the Great Isaiah Scroll. This project was envisioned and funded by George Blumenthal, the Center for Online Judaic Studies. We look forward to developing this project further with additional scrolls to be digitized in the near future.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.